Parenting – My Most Valuable Advice

Having a family is never easy but if you know how to respect each other, practice self-discipline and even having open lines of communication with one another then everything will go smoothly. When a person wants to live peacefully with their family, this doesn’t mean they are giving everybody in the family a silent treatment. Living harmoniously with your family means you respect individual differences among family members, you know your limitations and you can effectively communicate your thoughts and feelings.

1. Respect for Every Family Member

Knowing when to acknowledge a certain achievement done by one of your family members is a good way of showing you are paying attention to them and you are affectionate too. In a family appreciation can be done whenever you respect the views and opinions of your loved ones as well as their personal belongings. For example, if there is anybody in your family who is feeling sad then you must not ignore it. Ask them what’s going on and the reasons why they are having such gloomy face. Don’t feel like you have to do something in order to fix the problem because this is their own battle, what you can do is to be their for them and give them support in anyway you can.

Being polite is also another way to show respect. Sometimes those minor things that you say is already a big thing like please, thank you and so on. Another thing is asking how was their day is another thing.

Another thing that you need to know is that respect for a person’s ideas doesn’t mean you will conform to what they are telling you. You can probably share what you have in mind too. There are times when your kids come up with superb concepts but there are times too that their thoughts are not that good. When their ideas may seemed inappropriate, this is where an adult’s perception comes in handy. The way children see this world is entirely different. Listening to their ideas is like a give and take relationship, you get to learn from them and the same goes for them. It would be good as well if you are able to expound why a certain concept won’t work and just let them put their ideas into action as long is this will not cause any harm.

But the sad thing is people seemed to disregard the age of the person they’re talking to that is why respect is vital thing in one’s family. There are a lot of reasons why these things happen; some it includes the idea that a certain person doesn’t have any good thing to say so people end up not listening to their ideas. Those people have their entire lifetime to experience this one but it would be best if respect is practiced within your family after all parents are the children’s first teachers.

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